“The doctrine of noblesse oblige became discredited, dismissed as corrupt and ‘elitist.’” Lance Morrow wrote the latter in the Wall Street Journal last Friday about the alleged aftermath to Vietnam. Morrow is generally excellent, which was why his column, “Biden, Trump and American Vanity,” was so disappointing.
Going back to David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest (referenced by Morrow in his opinion piece), but surely before that, writers have relentlessly tried to attach bigger meaning to the political careers of the well-born, and well-educated. Paraphrasing a line from the brilliant Tina Fey’s movie Mean Girls, they need to stop trying to make fetch happen. There’s no there to this endlessly bruited there.
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